New Testament amulet

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A New Testament amulet (also called a talisman) is an ancient hand-written portion of the New Testament, commonly worn as a charm. The Lord's Prayer is the most common text found on amulets. Also commonly found are the opening verses of each of the four New Testament gospels.

The numbering system begun by Ernst von Dobschütz for New Testament Greek Amulets assigned each recovered Amulet a Blackletter character 𝔗 (indicating Talisman) followed by a superscript number. Von Dobschütz continued the list through 𝔗9. The additional numbers assigned below continue this numbering in the order suggested by Brice C. Jones.[1]

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## Contents

* 1 List of New Testament Amulets
* 2 See also
* 2.1 Other lists of New Testament manuscripts
* 2.2 Other articles
* 3 References
* 4 Notes

## List of New Testament Amulets

Dobs.# | Date | Contents | Script | Material | Publication | Owner | City, State | Country | Images

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𝔗1 = 0152  | 4th  | Matthew 6:11–13  | ΑΩ  | Ostrakon  |  | National Archaeological Museum, Inv. 12227  | Athens | Greece  |
𝔗2 | 6th–7th  | Matthew 4:23–24  | ΑΩ  | Parchment  | The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. VIII 1077[2] | Trexler Library, Muhlenberg College, T 888.01 O98; P.oxy.1077  | Allentown, PA  | USA | MC,[3] BJ[4]
𝔗3 | 6th  | Social:Matthew 1:1; 6:9–13; Religion:John 1:1 | ΑΩ  | Papyrus | Heidnisches und Christliches aus Ägypten[5] |  |  |  |
𝔗4 | 6th  | Matthew 1:1; 6:9; Mark 1:1–2; Luke 1:1; Religion:John 1:1 | ΑΩ/αω  | Papyrus  | Papiri greci e latini[6] | Laurentian Library, PSI VI 719  | Florence | Italy  | BML[7]
𝔗5 | 8th  | Matthew 6:9–13  | ΑΩ  | Wood tablet  |  | University of Heidelberg, Egyptian Collection, Inv. 761; P.Bad. 4.60  | Heidelberg  | Germany  | p.249
𝔗6 | 5th–6th  | Matthew 6:9–13; Luke 9:37; 11:1b-2  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | Papyri Iandanae[8] | University of Giessen, P.Iand. 1.6  | Gießen, Hesse  | Germany  | UoG[9]
𝔗7 | 14th  | Matthew 6:9–13; Mark 1:1–8, Luke 1:1–7; John 1:1–17  | αω  | Parchment  | A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament...[10] | The University of Chicago Library, Ms. 125 (Goodspeed)  | Chicago, IL  | USA  | TUOCL[11]
Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M. 499  | New York, NY  | USA  | PML[12]
𝔗8 | 5th–6th  | John 2:1a-2; Romans 12:1–2  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | Die Leipziger Papyrusfragmente der Psalmen [13] | Austrian National Library, G 3212  | Vienna | Austria  | ANL[14]
𝔗9 | 5th  | Religion:John 1:1, 3  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. VIII[15] | University of Glasgow, P. Oxy. 1151  | Glasgow  | UK  | OP[16]
𝔗10 | 5th–6th  | Matthew 1:1; 4:23; Mark 1:1; Luke 1:1; John 1:1–2  | ΑΩ  | Parchment  | Altchristliche Texte im Berliner Museum[17] | Berlin State Museums, P. 6096  | Berlin | Germany  | BerlPap[18]
𝔗11 | 5th–6th  | Matthew 4:23/9:35; Matthew 8:15/Mark 1:31  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | Vier Berliner Zaubertexte[19] | Berlin State Museums, P. 21230  | Berlin  | Germany  | BerlPap[20]
𝔗12 | 5th–6th  | Unsolved:Matthew 6:9, 11  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | Papyri in the Princeton University Collections[21] | Princeton University Library, P.Princ. 2.107  | Princeton, NJ  | USA  | PUL[22]
𝔗13 | 6th–7th  | Matthew 6:9–13  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | A Greek Papyrus Amulet…[23] | Duke University, P.Duke inv. 778  | Durham, NC  | USA  | DU[24]
𝔗14 = 0324  | 5th  | Matthew 6:4–6, 8–12  | ΑΩ  | Parchment  | Columbia Papyri XI[25] | Columbia University, P.Col. 11.293  | New York, NY  | USA  | CU[26]
𝔗15 | 6th–8th  | Matthew 6:9–13  | ΑΩ/αω  | Papyrus  | The Lord’s Prayer and ΧΜΓ[27] | Yale University, P.CtYBR inv. 4600  | New Haven, CT  | USA  | YU[28]
𝔗16 | 4th–5th  | Matthew 6:9–13; 2 Corinthians 13:13?  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | Christian Papyri from the Oslo Collection[29] | University of Oslo, P.Oslo inv. 1644  | Oslo | Norway |
Schøyen Collection, MS 244/4  | Oslo  | Norway  |
𝔗17 | 3rd–4th  | Unsolved:Matthew 6:10–12  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | The Antinoopolis Papyri, pt. 2[30] | Sackler Library, P.Ant. 2.54  | Oxford  | UK  | p.233
𝔗18 | 6th  | Matthew 6:11–13  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | Kölner Papyri[31] | University of Cologne, P.Köln 8.336  | Cologne  | Germany  | UOC[32]
𝔗19 | 5th  | Matthew 6:11–13  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | Kölner Papyri[33] | University of Cologne, P.Köln 4.171  | Cologne  | Germany  | UOC[34]
𝔗20 = 𝔓105 | 5th–6th  | Matthew 27:62–64; 28:2–5  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXIV[35] | Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, P. Oxy. 4406  | Oxford  | UK  | OP,[36] CSNTM, INTF
𝔗21 | 3rd–4th  | Mark 1:1–2  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXXVI[37] | Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, P. Oxy. 5073  | Oxford  | UK  | OP[38]
𝔗22 | 5th–6th  | John 1:1–12  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | Kölner Papyri[39] | University of Cologne, P.Köln 8.340  | Cologne  | Germany  | UOC[40]
𝔗23 | 6th–7th  | John 1:5–6  | ΑΩ  | Parchment  | Griechische literarische Papyri christlichen Inhaltes II, vol. 1[41] | Austrian National Library, G 29831  | Vienna  | Austria  | ANL[42]
𝔗24 | 6th–7th  | John 1:29, 49  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | Ein apokryphes Evangelienfragment[43] | Berlin State Museums, Inv. 11710  | Berlin  | Germany  | BerlPap[44]
𝔗25 | 6th  | 2 Corinthians 10:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:8/Ephesians 6:16  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | Die Leipziger Papyrusfragmente der Psalmen [45] | Austrian National Library, G 26034 + 30453  | Vienna  | Austria  | ANL[46]
𝔗26 = 0262  | 7th  | 1 Timothy 1:15–16  | ΑΩ/αω  | Parchment  | Neue neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung[47] | Berlin State Museums, P. 13977  | Berlin  | Germany  | BerlPap,[48] INTF, CSNTM
𝔗27 = 𝔓78 | 3rd–4th  | Jude 4–5, 7–8  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. XXIV[49] | Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, P. Oxy. 2684  | Oxford  | UK  | OP[50] CSNTM, INTF
𝔗28 | 4th–5th  | Colossians 3:9–10  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | A Christian Amulet Containing Colossians 3:9–10[51] | Petrie Egyptian Museum, UC 32070  | London | UK  | PEM[52]
𝔗29 | 3rd–4th  | Acts 9:1  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | An Amulet Containing Acts 9:1[53] | Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham[54] | Birmingham  | UK  |
𝔗30 | 5th–6th  | Religion:Matthew 1:20 | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  | A Greek Papyrus Fragment with a Citation of Matthew 1:20[55] | University of Michigan, P.Mich. inv. 4944b  | Ann Arbor, MI  | USA  | BJ[56]
𝔗31 | 5th–6th  | Mt 1:1; Mk 1:1; Jn 1:1  | ΑΩ  | Papyrus  |  | Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum, BAAM 0505  | Alexandria  | USA  |

## See also

### Other lists of New Testament manuscripts

* List of New Testament papyri
* List of New Testament uncials
* List of New Testament minuscules
* List of New Testament lectionaries
* List of New Testament Latin manuscripts
* List of New Testament Church Fathers
* List of the Syriac New Testament manuscripts

### Other articles

* List of Egyptian papyri by date
* Novum Testamentum Graece
* Palaeography
* Biblical manuscript
* Textual criticism

## References

* Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland (1995). The Text of The New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes (2nd ed.). Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8028-4098-1.
* T.S. de Bruyn & H.F. Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Elements,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011) 163–216.
* Peter Head, ‘Additional Greek Witnesses to the New Testament (Ostraca, Amulets, Inscriptions, and Other Sources)’ in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Second Edition (eds M.W. Holmes & B.D. Ehrman; NTTSD 42; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2012), 429–460.
* Brice C. Jones, New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity and Their Relevance for Textual Criticism, April 2015.

## Notes

1. ↑ "New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity and Their Relevance for Textual Criticism". Brice C. Jones. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/979831/1/Jones_PhD_S2015. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
2. ↑ "Amulet: St. Matthew's Gospel". The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. 1898. https://archive.org/stream/oxyrhynchuspapyr08grenuoft#page/10/mode/2up. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
3. ↑ "P. Oxy. 1077: Amulet: St. Matthew's Gospel, iv.". Muhlenberg College. https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/SS7730556_7730556_9255811;prevRouteTS=1562002596230. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
4. ↑ "P.Oxy. 8.1077 (LDAB 2959)". Brice Jones. https://www.bricecjones.com/blog/parchment-manuscripts-discovered-at-oxyrhynchus. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
5. ↑ Ulrich Wilken, “Heidnisches und Christliches aus Ägypten,” APF 1 (1901): 396–436, at 431–436.
6. ↑ G. Vitelli, Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto: Papiri greci e latini, vol. 6 (Florence: Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana, 1920), no. 719 (=151–152).
7. ↑ "PSI VI 719". Laurentian Library. http://www.psi-online.it/documents/psi;6;719. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
8. ↑ Ernest Schäfer, Papyri Iandanae, Vol. 1: Voluminum codicumque fragmenta graeca cum amulet christiano (Leipzig: Teubner, 1912), no. 6 (=18–32).
9. ↑ "Inv. 14". University of Giessen. http://bibd.uni-giessen.de/papyri/images/piand-inv014recto.jpg. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
10. ↑ Kenneth W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937), pp. 226–227.
11. ↑ "Ms. 125, Talismanic Scroll (D'Hendecourt Scroll). Greg. T7.". The University of Chicago Library. http://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/ms/index.php?doc=0125. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
12. ↑ "Miscellany". The Morgan Library and Museum. 13 July 2017. https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/85705. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
13. ↑ Heinrici, Die Leipziger Papyrusfragmente der Psalmen (Beiträge zur Geschichte und Erklärung des Neuen Testaments 4; Leipzig, 1903), 31–32.
14. ↑ "Inventarnummer: G 02312 Pap". Austrian National Library. http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00001822. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
15. ↑ A.S. Hunt (ed.), Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. VIII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1911), §1151 (251–253).
16. ↑ "P.Oxy. VIII 1151". University of Glasgow. http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/images/papyrus/0012rwf.jpg. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
17. ↑ F. Krebs, Altchristliche Texte im Berliner Museum, Nachr. Gesell. Göttingen, 1892, 118–120, Nr. IV; C. Schmidt – W. Schubart, BKT VI 7.1; C. Wessely, Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II, Patrologia orientalis 18, 1924, 412–413.
18. ↑ "P. 6096: Christliches Amulett". Berliner Papyrusdatenbank. https://berlpap.smb.museum/01656/. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
19. ↑ William Brashear, “Vier Berliner Zaubertexte,” ZPE 17 (1975): 25–33, at 31–33.
20. ↑ "P. 21230: Christliches Amulett". Berliner Papyrusdatenbank. http://ww2.smb.museum/berlpap/index.php/04427/. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
21. ↑ Edmund Harris Kase, Jr., ed., Papyri in the Princeton University Collections (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1936), no. 107 (102–103).
22. ↑ "Amulet. Gnostic fever amulet (both pagan and Christian)". Princeton University Libraries. https://dpul.princeton.edu/papyri/catalog/rx913t395. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
23. ↑ Csaba A. La’da and Amphilochios Papathomas, “A Greek Papyrus Amulet from the Duke Collection with Biblical Excerpts,” BASP 41 (2004): 93–113.
24. ↑ "Amulet (P.Duk.inv. 778)". Duke University. https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/records/778.html. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
25. ↑ Timothy M. Teeter, Columbia Papyri XI (ASP 38; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998), no. 293 (=1–7).
26. ↑ "Biblical Text [V AD"]. Columbia University. http://papyri.info/apis/columbia.apis.p1812. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
27. ↑ Brent Nongbri, “The Lord’s Prayer and ΧΜΓ: Two Christian Papyrus Amulets,” HTR 104 (2011): 59–68.
28. ↑ "Amulet with Lord's Prayer". Yale University. http://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:2767735. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
29. ↑ Leiv Amundsen, “Christian Papyri from the Oslo Collection,” Symbolae Osloenses 24 (1945): 121–147, at 141–147
30. ↑ J.W.B. Barns, H. Zilliacus, and C.H. Roberts (eds.), The Antinoopolis Papyri, pt. 2 (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1960), no. 54 (6–7)
31. ↑ Michael Gronewald, “Vaterunser,” in Kölner Papyri (P. Köln), vol. 8 (eds. Michael Gronewald, Klaus Maresch, and Cornelia Römer; Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1997), 48–49
32. ↑ "Inv. 03583, Köln, Papyrussammlung". University of Cologne. https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/tm65041. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
33. ↑ Cornelia Römer, “171. Christliches Amulett,” in Kölner Papyri (P. Köln), vol. 4 (eds. Bärbel Kramer, Cornelia Römer, and Dieter Hagedorn; Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1982), 31–34
34. ↑ "Inv. 03302, Köln, Papyrussammlung". University of Cologne. https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/tm64737. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
35. ↑ J. David Thomas, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXIV (eds. E.W. Handley et al.; London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1997), §4406.
36. ↑ "P.Oxy.LXIV 4406". Oxyrhynchus Online. http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00
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41. ↑ Kurt Treu and Johannes Diethart, Griechische literarische Papyri christlichen Inhaltes II, vol. 1 (MPER N.S. XVII; Vienna: Hollinek, 1993), no. 10 (23).
42. ↑ "Amulett mit Joh. 1, 5–6. Inventarnummer: G 29831 Pap". Austrian National Library. http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00000868. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
43. ↑ H. Lietzmann, “Ein apokryphes Evangelienfragment,” ZNW 22 (1923): 153–154
44. ↑ "P. 11710: Christliches Amulett (?) in Kodexform". Berlin State Museums. http://berlpap.smb.museum/record/?result=0&Alle=11710&lang=en. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
45. ↑ Heinrici, Die Leipziger Papyrusfragmente der Psalmen (Beiträge zur Geschichte und Erklärung des Neuen Testaments 4; Leipzig, 1903), 31–32.
46. ↑ "Neues Testament : G 30453 Phylakterion (?) mit Epistola ad Corinthios II 10, 4 und Epistola ad Thessalonicenses I 5, 8.. Inventarnummer: G 26034 Pap". Austrian National Library. http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00003765. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
47. ↑ Kurt Treu, “Neue neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung,” APF 18 (1966): 23–38, at 36–37.
48. ↑ "P. 13977: Amulett mit Textstellen aus Paulus, 1. Brief an Timotheus". Berliner Papyrusdatenbank. http://berlpap.smb.museum/03978/. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
49. ↑ P.J. Parsons, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. XXXIV (eds. L. Ingrams, et al.; London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1968), §2684.
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51. ↑ Thomas A. Wayment, A Christian Amulet Containing Colossians 3:9–10, Vigiliae Christianae Volume 69: Issue 5 (2015)
52. ↑ "A Christian Amulet Containing Colossians 3:9–10 (Wayment)". Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. 3 December 2015. http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-christian-amulet-containing.html#comments. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
53. ↑ Lincoln H Blumell, An Amulet Containing Acts 9:1, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, Volume 54: (2017) pp. 31–43.
54. ↑ "New Testament Papyrus Discovered in Birmingham!". University of Birmingham. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/itsee/news/2015/nt-papyrus-discovery.aspx. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
55. ↑ Brice C. Jones, A Greek Papyrus Fragment with a Citation of Matthew 1:20, Journal of Biblical Literature, Volume 137, Number 1: (2018) pp. 169–174.
56. ↑ "New Greek Papyrus with a Citation of Matthew 1:20". Brice Jones. https://www.bricecjones.com/blog/new-greek-papyrus-with-a-citation-of-matthew-120. Retrieved 2019-08-01.

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